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International chess federation FIDE: a trans woman "has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women"
  • The estrogen treatment regimens used in transgender women aim to lower testosterone levels to within the female range (<1 nmol/L) [52]. However, hormone therapy alone has met limited success in suppressing testosterone levels, with many transgender women failing to achieve the desired level. In recent studies of transgender women, one quartile failed to achieve any significant suppression [53] and one-third failed to suppress testosterone levels despite achieving desired estradiol levels [54]. Another study reported that only 49% of transgender women showed suppressed testosterone concentrations after 6 months or more of estrogen with the addition of antiandrogen therapy [55]. Notably, Jarin and colleagues show that testosterone levels in transgender women decreased significantly from former male levels, however nearly all participants maintained their testosterone levels above the female range [56]. Whether elite transwoman athletes experience the same difficulties in suppressing testosterone levels with estrogen therapy has not been reported.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331831/

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  • International chess federation FIDE: a trans woman "has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women"
  • See, I can see the arguments for this for like physical sports. And to be clear I fully support trans people but I can understand how being born male can give you certain advantages in physical sports that make it unfair towards women who were born female. I don't know the right answer for how to handle it, but I can see how the complaints make sense.

    But fucking chess? Come on what the hell advantage do people amab have over cis women in chess? This is bigotry pure and simple.

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